The increasing demand for higher productivity of tea, results in its intensive cultivation, which increases the pressure from insect pests on this crop. Chemical pesticides, irrespective of their toxicity status, are being ...

Several insecticides, germicides and herbicides which, are now prohibited, are still used in Chinese common tea gardens. Applied amounts of the pesticides with high toxicity and long time residues, such as methomyl, cannot ...

Chemicalisation of agriculture in general and tea in particular results in chemical residues in the finished product. Due to stringent MRL values fixed for various pesticides in made tea, and the difficulties in marketing ...

Natural enemies of tea pests have co-evolved with their preys. Most have a fairly low level of satiation and, therefore, may not control the pests in the conventional sense. They do, however, regulate the pest population ...